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SPRINGBORO — A 50-year-old Springboro High School employee reported missing on Thursday was
found dead in a Middletown parking lot late Friday night.

A police officer found Laura Lynn Howard dead shortly before midnight Friday, a Middletown
police dispatcher said. She was discovered inside a Chrysler van in the parking lot of Bicentennial
Commons, a park near the Great Miami River Recreational Trail southwest of Dayton.

The cause of her death is under investigation.

Howard worked in food services at Springboro High, said district spokeswoman Karen Lane
DeRosa.

Springboro Police Sgt. Eric Abrams said Howard’s husband, Eric Howard, reported her missing
at 8:50 p.m. Thursday. She was last seen leaving her home in Springboro at about 1 p.m. that day,
police said.